On a cold, wet night during the harsh Tasmanian winter, a young mother lay dying soon after giving birth. A devout Catholic, she had been calling out for a priest since midnight, but being the only Catholics in the small town, it appeared her dying wish for a priest to hear her final confession would…
Late in 1908, two mates set up camp at an idyllic spot by the Namoi River not far from the small town of Wee Waa in northwestern NSW. Some weeks later, one of the men, Harry Johnson, would be pulled from the river, his badly decomposed body anchored down in the Namoi’s waters with an…
Around 1891, Peter Stein, a “hard headed, practical, frugal German,” sold his property at Wagga Wagga, packed up his family, including his adult son Jacob, and set off in search of new property in the Dubbo district of central western New South Wales. On arrival in the district, Peter and his son, Jacob, took up two…
In Murderer fingered by Fisher’s Ghost, an encounter with the ghost of Frederick Fisher sitting on a railing and pointing to a spot up the creek where his body would soon be found led to the conviction and execution of his murderer, George Worrell back in 1826. In 1850, at Maitland, in the Hunter Valley…
A successful farmer disappears in the dark of night. The missing man’s neighbour and close associate claims he has left the country and immediately begins taking over all his business affairs. Suspicions turn to foul play. Four months later, a ghostly encounter leads to the discovery of a man’s body buried in a boggy creek.…
In early 1887, the Large family, living on a remote Cooyal property near the central west NSW town of Mudgee, was terrorised by an inexplicable nightly rain of luminous stones falling, and sometimes floating, inside their house. At first, some of the Large’s 15 children were suspected of larking around, but it soon became apparent…
